April, 2011
A meeting to remember
May 01, 2011
During my interview with Captain Gopinath, I asked him, “Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met?” Without batting an eyelid he said, “Sir Richard Branson.” He told me to pick up his book, Simply Fly, and read about his meeting with the founder of Virgin Group, a conglomerate of over 400 companies.
The Frequent Flyer
May 01, 2011
Deccan 360’s founder, Captain G.R. Gopinath, is a structured problem solver at work. But, the practical purveyor of India’s skies is all entrepreneur at heart. His current yearning is to revolutionise the country’s logistics sector. And his secret weapons are the learnings from the Air Deccan experience and ability to execute at breakneck pace
Brand for People not Poverty!
May 01, 2011
Marketers segment away the urban population by lifestyle, preferences, and a host of psychographic and social characteristics but rural folk are simply defined by their poverty. No wonder for every success story in rural India there have been many failed business ventures
Coming of Age
May 01, 2011
Children have become the focus for families today and parents are increasingly becoming aware of the need to create the right atmosphere and provide the right products, for their overall development
Your Face on Chocolate
May 01, 2011
Personalisation of gifts is a popular concept and Picsquare, through constant research, is expanding the range of products on which one can print almost anything. Its most recent product: a photo chocolate
Hoisting its way up
May 01, 2011
ElectroMech Material Handling Systems (India) is bullish about India’s infrastructure development space and is gearing up to ride this growth wave
Under the Big Tree
May 01, 2011
BigTree Entertainment’s Ashish Hemrajani takes pride in the fact that everybody in his team loves a Monday morning. This young founder-chief executive takes a casual approach to people management while never losing sight of both individual and collective responsibilities, a trait that has seen him and the organisation emerge successfully from two downturns
A Champion Coach
May 01, 2011
A summary of sentiments from the ICC World Cup 2011 including a note of thanks to Coach Gary Kirsten for shaping a team of champions
It’s playtime folks!
May 01, 2011
The Chennai-based Alphabet Play School believes that children benefit the most while learning through play. With its strengths being the quality of staff and the uniqueness of its learning methods, the school has grown to earn its place in the city
The Social spread
Jul 01, 2010
The smarter organisations have moved past the debate on social media. They are now working hard and fast at finding ways to adopt it and make it work for them
Take Stock
May 01, 2011
Understanding your current situation in terms of personal finance is a prerequisite to financial planning. In this article, we list out a step-by-step approach to help analyse your present finances
‘Building an ecosystem and fostering an industry-academia relationship is crucial for the education sector’
May 01, 2011
In conversation with Anand Sudarshan, chief-executive and managing director, Manipal Education, on the challenges in the Indian education sector and some ideas on how to counter them
Scaling up your retail business
May 01, 2011
Know your customer, know your market, work out the back-end first and have the right people in the right place – the mandate to any retailer looking to scale up business
On a Cloud ERP
May 01, 2011
Ramco System’s chief-executive officer, P.R. Venketrama Raja is a technologist at heart. He explains why he wants to make Ramco’s cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) product so sophisticated that it can drive efficiency across a company – from a shop floor to the boardroom
